Our Dazzler! Antique Homemade Painted Platform, For a Prize Rooster, I Presume! antique kaleidoscope with a pontil visible on

with a pontil visible on the bottom

producing the same scale a semitone higher in each hole

As I list them right next to a gridded mandala painting

original to the carving

Our Dazzler! Antique Homemade Painted Platform, For a Prize Rooster, I Presume! antique kaleidoscope with a pontil visible onThe first thing I found on my recent trip to Lancaster Country PA, and one of my favorites. At first I imagined "Our Dazzler" as a fluffy little show dog or exotic cat, but the more I've thought about it, and considering the primitive nature of the platform, I'd be willing to bet this was the stand for presenting a prize rooster! I'd think made for and used at the country fair, in hopes of a first prize ribbon or trophy (I like to imagine a young man